Goodyear Marathon tires

If you wanted to see the newest and most advanced tire manufacturing facility on the face of the planet Earth where would you go? I would bet that those tire facilities would be found in China. Just something to think about. I believe even the Maxxis tires for trailers are now made in China.

broark01 wrote:
My opinion based on my experience and watching others is that most tire failures are human failures in regards to care and maintenance. Tires are tires, maintain them and do not exceed their speed or capacity.

If you are leery about Chinese made stuff, rip out all of your electronics immediately. We vote with our wallets and we have voted for China and India.

I beg to differ with you on the cause of ST tire failures. You state that you believe human failure is the biggest contributor. Why is it that there are hundreds of thousands more P tires on cars and you see a fraction of the failures that you see on ST tires on trailers?
Do you really think that the general population is more prudent about taking care of their tires on their cars?-I highly doubt it. I would bet that 30-40% of the cars going down the highway have tires that are under inflated and yet you see very LITTLE tire failure.
It all comes down to the ST tires are NOT held to the same DOT specifications as P and LT tires.

broark01 wrote:
My opinion based on my experience and watching others is that most tire failures are human failures in regards to care and maintenance. Tires are tires, maintain them and do not exceed their speed or capacity.

If you are leery about Chinese made stuff, rip out all of your electronics immediately. We vote with our wallets and we have voted for China and India.

Just curious how you account for the several posts on here about spare tires blowing up while they aren't even mounted on an axle...I think the Chinese are capable of making a good product, but the manufacturers are more interested in a cheap price. When it comes to cheap nobody is better at it than the Chinese.

B.O.

The newest Marathons are made at a new plant with direct GY employees to QC the manufacturing and materials.
Previously China Marathons were just build to spec. Primary specification must have been low price :R

Unfortunately almost all of the products have we have available to us as far as electronics and other items that are commonly found in RVs from tires to light bulbs are made in Communist China. We are just going to have to learn to deal with it

I happen to think that GY Marathons, should be replaced ASAP. And nobody should be running ST Tires. Any Chinese made tire needs replacement with non-Chinese tire.

Vulcaneer wrote:
I happen to think that GY Marathons, should be replaced ASAP. And nobody should be running ST Tires. Any Chinese made tire needs replacement with non-Chinese tire.

LOL. Really based on your opinion or have you actually used them.

We bought our used 2009 Keystone Challenger 34SAQ in April this year. On our first trip we had a blowout. Those tires were OEM and built in 2008.

I bought a new set with build date Dec 2012 - So far that hasn't been an omen LOL!!

Anyway... I found this Marathon Inflation PSB

I've been running them at 90psi and so far we've put nearly 2000 miles on 6 separate trips in 100+ degree Texas heat without any problems.

Fingers crossed.

Check out this link about GY Marathons from the Montana Owners forum this week. clicky

Ginther wrote:
Anyway... I found this Marathon Inflation PSB

I've been running them at 90psi and so far we've put nearly 2000 miles on 6 separate trips in 100+ degree Texas heat without any problems.

Fingers crossed.

I don't think the PSB says OK to exceed max sidewall cold inflation pressure.
It would appear to say if your tire placard(gvwr sticker) says 65psi you can go 75psi however I think that assumes your sidewall says 80psi max.